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zsorosebudphoto · 2 days

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Chopin's piano and manuscripts, Cartoixa de Valldemosa, Valldemosa, Mallorca, 11-12-23

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mapsontheweb · 6 months

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Europe's most famous composers.

by u/One_Perspective_8761

Armenia - Aram Khachaturian

Austria - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Azerbaijan - Üzeyir Hajibeyov

Belgium - Orlando di Lasso

Bulgaria - Pancho Vladigerov

Croatia - Ivan Zajc

Czech Republic - Antonín Dvořák

Denmark - Carl Nielsen

Estonia - Arvo Pärt

Finland - Jean Sibelius

France - Claude Debussy

Greece - Iannis Xenakis

Georgia - Gia Kancheli

Spain - Pablo Sarasate

Netherlands - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Ireland - John Field

Iceland - Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson

Lithuania - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Latvia - Pēteris Vasks

Germany - Johann Sebastian Bach

Norway - Edvard Grieg

Poland - Fryderyk Chopin

Portugal - José Vianna da Motta

Russia - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Romania - George Enescu

Serbia - Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac

Slovakia - Ján Cikker

Slovenia - Davorin Jenko

Switzerland - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

Sweden - Hugo Alfvén

Ukraine - Mykola Lysenko

Hungary - Franz Liszt

United Kingdom - Gustav Holst

Italy - Antonio Vivaldi

#maps #europe #composers #musicians

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sixty-silver-wishes · 1 year

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everyone shut up this is ACTUALLY what fans of different composers are like

Mahlerians are PROUD TO BE ABSOLUTELY INSUFFERABLE DRAMA QUEENS, THE LIKES OF WHICH EVEN THE WAGNER CULT COULD NEVER SO MUCH AS ASPIRE TO BE. WE ARE ONE WITH THE UNYIELDING EBB AND FLOW OF THE BOUNDLESS UNIVERSE, DAMN IT ALL!

Shostakovich fans are like Mahler fans except they actually understand what sarcasm is. We also all really like the Muppets for some reason. Most of us own cats and likely have at least one mental illness.

Liszt fans are either tweenagers who love anime or salty old pianists who know a disturbing amount about music theory. These two factions are constantly at war.

Copland fans are either very, very far right or very, very far left. Either way, neither side actually listens to all of Copland's repertoire.

Tchaikovsky fans are either Russian grandmas or LGBT orchestra kids on Tiktok. Either those or the one noob who heard there were cannons once.

Wagner fans. Yes, there are the cringey neo-Nazi Wagnerians, but anti-Nazi Wagnerians are a whole new level of chaotic good. They spend their time dreaming up the most disastrous, chaotic Ring productions possible, with the sole purpose of making Richard Wagner's entire family simultaneously spin in their graves. They take "death of the author" to a whole new level and constantly run on nothing but 100% pure spite. You want a Wagnerian who would beat up Wagner in a Denny's parking lot on your side.

Prokofiev fans will unironically say "ackshually...". That's it.

Dvorak fans are homeschool kids. They're either soul-crushingly innocent or devastatingly horny.

Sousa fans are just high school band directors who try to convince themselves they like Sousa to get through the semester.

Joplin fans constantly argue over whether Joplin's music should be played twice as quickly or twice as slowly than it's actually written. Also sick of hearing about Janis.

Chopin fans are exactly like Liszt fans, except there are 20% more "uwu softboi flowercrown" edits of Chopin than Liszt floating around on Instagram and Tumblr.

Holst fans will drag you into an alleyway and beat you up with their bare hands if you so much as mention The Planets.

Bernstein fans are either horny theatre kids or communists, but it's more likely they're both at once. They are very opinionated about recordings, and express their approval of the ones they like by gyrating excessively to them. If you put a Bernstein fan, a Mahler fan, and a Shostakovich fan in one room, they will either topple a national government or have a threesome.

Ravel fans are inherently Wes Anderson fans. You can be friends with one for years without knowing a single thing about their personality.

Schoenberg fans are like Mahlerians but with worse memes.

Brahms fans are... I have never met a Brahms fan. I'm sure they exist, but I'm pretty sure my own taste in music scares them off.

Paganini fans are almost always TwoSet kids, particularly the ones who try to convince people that "classical music isn't boring because it's basically metal." If you tell them Paganini played viola, they will spontaneously combust.

Rachmaninov fans are ultimately really chill, but are often socially awkward. If you ask a Rachmaninov fan "how are you?", they will most likely respond with "you too."

Schumann fans are Mahlerians on medication.

Stravinsky fans think they're chaotic and unhinged and listen to the most obscure underground shit, but in all actuality they just decided to enter their edgy phase after a lifetime of being sheltered and forced to listen to nothing but Handel by their parents. Possibly homeschooled.

Ysaye fans are like Paganini fans, except they're depressed graduate music students with permanent calluses on their fingers.

Debussy fans go to art school, decide they don't like art school, but have been doing art school too long to turn back, so they can't get out of art school. They may be high on weed at any given moment.

Satie fans are just possessed vessels of Erik Satie. Death cannot hinder Erik Satie. Erik Satie will return to this mortal plane. Search your feelings. You are already Erik Satie.

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airplanemoded · 7 months

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are you?

#the son is me btw #i should be practicing #i saw the image of chopin and liszt with a gun and had to make this meme #lol #my stuff #chopin #liszt #frederic chopin #franz liszt #classical music #classical composers #composers #composer memes #classical music memes

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thatsbelievable · 10 months

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#Mozart’s Secret!#Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart #Antonio Salieri #music #composers #frogs #unreality

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silverystardustt · 2 months

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being a musician is knowing exactly what instrument belongs in what case, it never goes away lol

#literature #academia #dark academia #poetry #classics #light academia #books #reading #university #music #classical music #composers #music theory #music major #english major #singer #instrumental #love #poem

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ohchopin · 3 months

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😍!

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marcelshistorydump · 4 months

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Ah, yes. Procrastination at its best.

#help me I still have sm assignments to do #and this #is what I'm doing #franz liszt #marie d'agoult #classical music #composers #classical composers #documentary

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newyorkthegoldenage · 3 months

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George Gershwin relaxed after composing by painting. Here he is in his New York apartment with his first oil painting, February 1, 1932. He finished it in three days.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #George Gershwin #hobbies #painting #Feb. 1 #1 Feb.#amateur painter #composers

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incorrect-composer-quotes · 10 months

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[beethoven composing his fidelio]

thought of drawing another one of the quotes on here ^_^

#submission #beethoven #classical music #chibi art #composers #history #incorrect composer quotes #ludwig van beethoven

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capn-o-my-soul · 7 months

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OMG GUYSS ITS DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH'S 117TH BIRTHDAY

look at him

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#dmitri shostakovich #dsch #shostakovich #composers #classical music #birthdays #composer birthday

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el-rombo · 5 months

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A pastiche of Pokemon battle music using some quotations from Shostakovich's 5th symphony. Basically, a Shotakovich battle theme. If I do another I'm gonna do Mozart with stuff from Symphony 40, I'll probably look into trying to do more with one motif instead of using at least four like I did with this one.

#classical music #classical composers #composers #dmitri shostakovich #shostakovich #vgm #video game music #pokemon #pokemon music #oc music

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sixtysilverwishes-art · 6 months

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freehands of my favorite musical guys

#art #drawing #classical music #music #shostakovich #dmitri shostakovich #mahler #gustav mahler #ravel #maurice ravel #composers #classical composer

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sixty-silver-wishes · 7 months

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Dmitri Shostakovich at Sergei Prokofiev's funeral, 1953.

For context, Prokofiev and Stalin died on the same day- March 5, 1953. Because Stalin's funeral was such a major event in the Soviet Union, Prokofiev's was largely overlooked, despite the fact he was one of the leading Soviet composers of his day. Relatively few people attended his funeral, Shostakovich among them.

Shostakovich and Prokofiev were not particularly close, and had a thorny professional relationship- much of the correspondence between them that I've been able to find appears to be formal criticism of each other's works. As Prokofiev was from an older generation- he was born in 1891, while Shostakovich was born in 1906- they did not always see eye-to-eye musically; Shostakovich experimented with the avant-garde when possible, perhaps in part due to his musical maturation during the socially-liberal NEP era, while Prokofiev's style tended to be more conservative and neoclassical- picking up more influence from Imperial-age composers and fellow emigres to the west (he lived in France and the United States before returning to the Soviet Union in 1936). Their generational difference also partially accounted for how they responded to harsh government criticism- Shostakovich was impacted by the consequences of his 1936 denunciation all his life and, while he suffered greatly during his second denunciation in 1948, was able to develop public and private personas, in both the musical and ideological spheres, to preserve himself and his artistry. However devastating as it was for Shostakovich, the 1948 denunciations took a greater toll on many other composers, Prokofiev included. As Prokofiev did not believe he would be harshly denounced as Shostakovich had been in 1936, he was far less prepared for the censorship and attacks he faced in 1948. As a result of the denunciations, combined with his declining health, his artistic productivity decreased, and he largely regulated himself to writing basic ideological works towards the end of his life.

This is a letter Shostakovich wrote to Prokofiev on the subject of his Seventh (and last) Symphony:

There's speculation as to whether or not Shostakovich was actually impressed by Prokofiev's Seventh Symphony. As Prokofiev was in decline at the time of writing it, the symphony has been criticized for being banal and not being particularly innovative; Rostropovich even claimed that Prokofiev added in its final flourish not for artistic purposes, but to have the piece nominated for a Stalin Prize, which would have meant money and a boost to his reputation after it suffered in 1948. (The Stalin Prize has its own complicated history in its role in Soviet music, and although it was the highest award a Soviet composer could earn, it could sometimes be awarded as a sort of backhanded punishment- an encouragement for composers to write the "right" sort of music, especially after they had been criticized for "formalism." Nonetheless, winning it after suffering a denunciation could mean financial and political security.) Did Shostakovich- who had often traded criticisms with Prokofiev over music- actually like this piece, or was this an effort to encourage a fellow artist to keep composing after suffering mental and physical ailments? This was a private letter and not a public statement, and Shostakovich was typically very straightforward about critiques, so if the entirely positive sentiment for the piece wasn't genuine (the only critique here is that Shostakovich says he wishes the entire symphony was encored!), the letter may have come from a place of concern.

Perhaps the most striking thing about this letter is the line, "I wish you another hundred years to live and create. Listening to such works as your Seventh Symphony makes it much easier and more joyful to live." Maybe by telling Prokofiev that he wished him another hundred years to live and create, Shostakovich was not simply praising the symphony, but encouraging Prokofiev- a composer whom he was often on icy terms with- that he needed to keep living and creating, during a time when it was becoming more and more difficult for him to do so.

#shostakovich #dmitri shostakovich #prokofiev #sergei prokofiev #music history #composers #classical composers #history #soviet history #classical music #music #cw dead body

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airplanemoded · 8 months

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#lmfao idek #my stuff #frederic chopin #franz liszt #chopin #liszt #classical music #classical composer #composers #meme #classical composers

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thatsbelievable · 10 months

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#What to do if Handel Borrows Your Hedge Trimmers But Never Returns Them #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #music #Handel #composers #Mozart #Bach #unreality

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